Hornbostel Sachs Classification

1 MIMO H-S classification 8 July 2011 Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium Co-funded by the European Union through the eContentplus programme INTRODUCTION The MIMO (Musical Instrument Museums Online) project has created a single access ...

The system that he established with Erich von Hornbostel in 1914 is "logical as well as universal". "Hornbostel's and Sachs's scheme—writes Margaret J. Kartomi—has had the most use and the greatest effect of any classification of instruments" during the last century, even if "use of the scheme has ...

In China, a system of classification known as the pa yin or "eight sounds" was devised in the third millennium BCE. ... instruments in the Brussels Conservatory museum in the 19th century, and because his system was picked up in turn by Erich M. von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs ...

This paper reviews several hierarchical classifications of musical instrument sounds but concentrates only on two of them: Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments and classifica-tionofmusical instruments by articulation with 15 differ-entarticulation methods (seen as attribute values ...